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MIT grad, ex Jane Street trader, comes from lawyer-professor family, garnered VC capital from big names like Kevin O'Leary and lead the pitches.

Dude knew what he was doing and if he didn't it was done out of such criminal negligence that he's still to blame.

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To be fair, he has said some things about risk and finance that are completely idiotic - like always valuing EV over utility regardless of stakes. It's the kind of detached-from-reality crap that a teenager whose brain hasn't developed yet would say. So he might be a scammer and a complete idiot regardless of where he went to school and where he worked.

Or something someone getting high on Parkinson’s medication that is known to cause extreme risk taking behavior might say.

I wonder if he started taking emsam after he knew his goose was cooked several months ago. Might be the only way to keep going with a straight face while you bet the farm on red hoping to get the deposits back.

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